AHV Virtualization

So over a year ago, there were reports of AHV turbo coming to us in 5.5. We are now at 5.10 and there have been no reports of VirtIO drivers for Windows supporting MultiQueuing. Any ideas as to why?

Wanted ask the community for some feedback on the topic of SQL Server 2008/R2 End of Support. My fellow Nutanix Solutions team members @gregwhite @Chris Paap, myself and others were discussing about SQL Server 2008/R2 End of Support and how that would impact IT? Can you help us by sharing your thoughts, actions, tools around DB/app upgrades, migration etc related to SQL Server 2008/R2? You can take the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJ2NWXS

A customer asked.... Is there a sort of table to compare the Acropolis version with che KVM corresponding one? Thank you!

Hi , Anyone would know if RHEL is supported to run on Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) ?

The following shows the available Load Balacing options currently available in vSphere 5.5 along with the recommended configuration for Nutanix environments for both Virtual Distributed Switches (VDS) and Virtual Standard Switches (VSS). NIC Teaming & Failover Recommendation

Hi, I just added a new storage disk onto a VM and copied data onto it then realize we'd rather just expand the current one so I deleted the new disk and when I go to expand the current disk it is showing that I have no more space to use to expand. Where is the space going after I delete disks? Thanks,

Hi Team, We use SCVMM to manage all our VM's and we are planning to move some machines to the AHV environment..Can you please confirm whether we will be able to do the live migration my VM's from HyperV to AHV?? Regards, V.Pradeep

Is it possible to implement throttling at a per VM level? The thoughts/scenario behind the question: We have had on a couple occasions where we found a VM (different in each occasion) that was running away with storage controller IOPs. Of course the goal is to get the actual issue resolved for the offending VM, but we would like to be able to implement throttling to be able to assure other VMs in that cluster don't suffer when this does occur. Disk I/O has been the scenario so far, but could also see the need to throttle CPU, memory, and/or NIC throughput at some point.

Hi Everyone, im just cruious about this scenario, I have 3 server type 2310 with single ssd, So if SSD FAIL on 2 different server at the same time what will happening?

Does anyone know of any official documentation on the best way to perform a migration from Hyper-V 2016 on Nutanix to a new AHV cluster (not an in place migration)? Or any good guides on doing this? It is going from Hyper-V 2016 to AHV but 2012 would be helpful. I have found a few articles but they are either quite old or not very well written. https://vmwaremine.com/2016/04/11/migrate-windows-2012r2-from-hyper-v-to-nutanix-ahv/ https://vmwaremine.com/2016/06/06/migrate-hyper-v-generation-2-vm-to-nutanix-ahv/ http://vcdx5

Hello, I have turned on Windows Dedup for some of my file servers that reside on AHV, however the storage reduction is not reflected on Prism. Any thoughts as to why? I wish I could run the Capacity Dedup from AHV however the last time that I turned it on I received the following alert: Do not replicate protection domain XXXXXXX comprising entities from the storage container that have deduplication enabled to a single node remote site XXXXXXX. (XXX denote omitted field)

How do virtual machines on AHV migrate to vmware?

Hi All, Hope you are doing well. I have question regarding the storage usage and space reclaimation in VMWare 6.5 with Nutanix clusters. This question is more into VMware instead of Nutanix, thought of checking here. Just to give a overview we have Nutanix nodes and we have got VMWare 6.x installed on the nodes, a single storage pool and multiple containers. I got a RHEL VM migrated from the old environment and it got 4 disks (10GB, 20 GB, 500GB & 5 GB), all the 4 disks are in the same DS and thin provisioned. No deduplication & compression enabled on those. Now when I access the VMware web console and look for the vmdk files by browsing the files in the DS, I can see a different capacity from the actual usage compared at the server level. When I see the same VM via PRISM and I cannot see the 4 disks assigned to it. It shows only 1 disk with some 160 MB used out of 20 GB and none other than that. Could you please help me to u

PROBLEM: When doing VM Migration from XenCenter to AHV, the VM gives a boot disk error at the startup in AHV after migration. DESCRIPTION: VM to Migrate: Windows Server 2012 R2 XenCenter Version: XenCenter version 7.1 64-bit Nutanix HyperVisor: AHV I am trying to do VM migration from XenCenter to Nutanix AHV. I am referring this article (https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000kAKJCA2) which seems to be the exact case what I am trying to do here. Every step is going smooth, but I am facing error only when the VM is migrated and when I start the VM it will always go into disk check and boot device not found error. See image:

Hi,I am trying to move a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM from Xenserver to AHV. With reference to this article: AHV | Migrating a Windows VM from XenServer to AHV everything is working great except when I am at the last step. When I turn on the VM in AHV, I am getting a boot device not found error and windows will not boot up.Windows will start with a windows icon throws the error and restarts, then goes into disk repair, reboots and same error and goes into the troubleshooting menu and when I am restart the VM in AHV it again and always goes into the boot disk inaccessible error.I made sure all the Xen components are already uninstalled from the vm and Nutanix VirtIO drivers are also installed. Tried with loading the image as scsi and IDE, but still going into the same error. Also tried booting up in safe mode, tried di

Hi All, I've just published an article on my blog regarding what I consider the top 5 best practies or tips for successful SQL Server virtualization projects. Thought you might like to check it out: http://longwhiteclouds.com/2017/02/01/best-practices-for-running-sql-server-virtualized/ Kind regards, Michael

Hey Everyone. So, I am relatively new to the whole Nutanix game. Im curious what everyone is suggestion is for CVM allocation. We had nutanix do our original provisioning, but the provisions the installer set it up with seem a bit excessive. 10 Cores and 32gb ram per CVM, Any thoughts?

Hi, we have the need for nested shares on our fileserver. While this was easy on NetApp Filer it seems impossible with Nutanix AFS, or I am missing something. We are currently on latest GA release AFS 2.0.2. with AOS 5.0.2 on ESXi 6.0U2. Is this on the roadmap or even possible with AFS 2.1? Replacing Fileservers (Windows or NetApp, doesnt matter) could only be done with full feature set. best regards Steffen

I am suffering with exausthives crashing in my Domino server and IBM support said that the possible problem is related to disks. I did an analysis in Prism and there are really trace of problems. The storage bandwith for this VM is much higher than all others. Is there anyone running Lotus Domino sever on Nutanix Cluster? I would like to hear your feedback and feeling about it. I am using Nutanix with vSphere 5.5.

As the most of you probably know, with AOS 5.6, has been introduced the Volume Group with Load Balancing function, well known as VGLB As i know the 5.6 version is in short term support. Now i'm deploying a two Oracle 12c RAC clusters on 2 8000 6-nodes AOS-AHV clusters with AOS 5.5.3.1. It involves using volume group with multiple vdisk, network related configuration, Linux related tuning and so on... Of course, with 5.5.3.1 (so far the latest GA version in long term support), i've not the VGLS choice, every volume group's I/O is managed by a single CVM. By the other side, with AOS 5.6, i could distribute this load on every single CVM and every single node storage on the cluster. Of couse this heavily impact on the resiliency, the performance and the resources distribution. The questions are two and i need some suggestions. 1) could be better to upgrade to 5.6 even if it is in short term support? 2) is it possible to update

Can anyone tell me if the inter-site (not intra-site, I am talking about DR replication traffic between clusters) is moved to the backplane traffic port when network segmentation is enabled? The Prism Web Console Guide v5.5 does not say so (it only mentions intra-cluster traffic): The traffic entering and leaving a Nutanix cluster can be broadly classified into the following types: Backplane trafficBackplane traffic is intra-cluster traffic that is necessary for the cluster to function, and comprises traffic between CVMs, traffic between CVMs and hosts, storage traffic, and so on. (For nodes that have RDMA-enabled NICs, the CVMs use a separate RDMA LAN for Stargate-to-Stargate communications.) Management trafficManagement traffic is administrative traffic, or traffic associated with Prism and SSH connections, remote logging, SNMP, and so on. The current implementation simplifies the definition of management traffic

Good evening. We are evaluating some nutanix offerings from a local partner. However I have some Microsoft related question and the partner is taking too long to respond. 1- Is there a version of Nutanix Acropolis/PRISM (4 node)that allows me to run unlimited Windows VMs without me needing to purchase a MS Windows DataCenter Core License from Microsoft? 2- Is there a PRISM/Acropolis Pro version that comes with a built in Windows Datacenter valid license? Or 3-Do I need (as usual) to buy my Datacenter Core licenses to properly license my new Windows VMs? Thanks

I have a BOM based in cluster 1465 G6 and the end customer wants the estimate IOPS or performance that the solution can be reach. ¿Where I can get this information? Regards.

I'm monitoring server from NUTANIX found memory full 100% anytime , How can I fix for this problem?

I am currently running VMware but will be soon switching to AHV. Will be purchasing a APC UPS with parchute software. Does anyone know if this is compatible for AHV? Does anyone out there with a UPS running AHV care to comment how they are managing the graceful shutdown of their Nodes and VMs in the event of power loss?